She should know. Miller chairs the Border and Maritime Security of
the House Committee on Homeland Security, which oversees the Department
of Homeland Security’s rush to deploy drones to keep the homeland
secure.

In practice, there’s more boosterism than effective oversight in the
House Homeland Security Committee and in Miller’s subcommittee.

The same holds true for most of the more than one hundred other congressional committees that purportedly oversee the DHS and its budget. Since the creation of
DHS in 2003 Congress has routinely approved annual and supplementary
budgets for border security that have been higher than those requested
by the president and DHS.